Ukrainians fear the U.S. will offer only vague assurances rather than a concrete commitment to defend Kyiv against future Russian aggression.
membership and admission into the alliance's Article 5 collective defense umbrella—which appears unlikely—Kyiv argues this is the only way to deter yet more Russian aggression.newspaper was not received well in Kyiv, according to current and former Ukrainian officials and politicians who spoke with:"Negotiations are ongoing between governments that are not public, and I can only say that the United States is negotiating with Kyiv about the security assurances that Ukraine can receive.
"Ukraine wants any new agreement to be meaningful and one that decades from now people will be calling a great success and not ridiculing as a failure," the source toldOleksandr Merezhko, a member of Ukraine's Rada parliament and the chair of its foreign policy committee, toldhis country would not make the same mistake it made in 1994, regardless of any external pressure.
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